Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 169

It might be said of a tree, as it has been said of some men--it was not predicted at his cradle that he should come to this.

Who acts: tree · What happens: say, not predict, come · To what, where: fruit, cradle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 men	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 men	det
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 predicted	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 predicted	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 predicted	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 predicted	advmod
21	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 cradle	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cradle	nmod:poss
24	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 predicted	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cradle	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might · passive		fruit		of a tree	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		fruit		of some men	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	not predict	past · passive		fruit	tree's cradle		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	come	should	tree	tree's cradle not said here		to this	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cradle=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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